Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.

We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.